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English: This enhanced color mosaic combines some of the sharpest views of Pluto that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft obtained during its July 14 flyby. The pictures are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons’ closest approach to Pluto, with resolutions of about 250-280 feet (77-85 meters) per pixel – revealing features smaller than half a city block on Pluto’s surface.
Pluto's surface is quite varied, with large differences in both brightness and color. [105] Pluto is one of the most contrastive bodies in the Solar System, with as much contrast as Saturn's moon Iapetus. [106] The color varies from charcoal black, to dark orange and white. [107]
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NASA's New Horizons probe has returned the first color images of Pluto. The small blurry dots in the newly-released photo are Pluto and Charon, the largest of Pluto's moons. New Horizons captured ...
NASA has published the first color movies of Pluto and its moon Charon from the New Horizons mission. New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern noted, "It's exciting to see Pluto and Charon ...
New Horizons data suggest equally variable surface ages for Pluto, with ancient, dark, mountainous terrain occurring alongside the bright, flat, effectively craterless Sputnik Planitia and various terrains of intermediate age and color. Pluto's surface color changed between 1994 and 2003: the northern polar region brightened and the southern ...